Fees
Every trade of a token launched on Tribe.run pays a fee based on the trade's SOL-side amount inside the token's pool. In the current USD trading flow, you enter buys in dollars and wallet cash settles in canonical USDC: the route converts between USDC and the pool's SOL leg before or after the pool trade. The fee splits two ways: a creator share, and a protocol share that funds referral rewards, broadcast commissions, and LP payouts. Rates fall as the token's market cap grows: young tokens pay more, established ones pay less.
| Market cap | Creator | Protocol, LP, and incentives* |
|---|---|---|
| Under 10k SOL | 1.00% | 2.00% |
| 10k SOL and up | 0.80% | 1.70% |
| 20k SOL and up | 0.60% | 1.40% |
| 40k SOL and up | 0.40% | 1.10% |
| 60k SOL and up | 0.30% | 0.70% |
| 80k SOL and up | 0.25% | 0.50% |
| 100k SOL and up | 0.20% | 0.30% |
* Up to 0.20% of each trade pays LPs. The LP rate scales with the share of pool liquidity that real LPs provide, so with no LPs it is zero.
- The creator share lands in the creator's wallet at trade time. There is nothing to claim.
- Referral rewards, broadcast commissions, and the referred-trader discount are paid from the protocol share.
- Launching itself carries no protocol fee.
- During the anti-sniping window, early buys pay the decaying fee described under Launch protection on top of these rates. All of it goes to the creator.
External tokens
Solana tokens that launched elsewhere trade in the app through their own market. These external trades pay a flat fee instead of the schedule above: 1% of the trade's cash notional, added on top of a buy and taken out of a sell's proceeds. Both the trade's wallet cash and this fee settle in canonical USDC. The rate does not change with market cap.
A short list of majors (USDT, JitoSOL, cbBTC, and wETH) trades at 0.25% instead of 1%. No broadcaster or referrer shares are paid on majors trades, and the referred-trader discount below does not apply.
Every trade that is charged a fee pays at least $0.10; on small trades the minimum applies instead of the percentage.
An eligible referred trader receives a discount equal to 10% of the 1% fee, so the amount charged falls from 1% to 0.9% of the trade notional. The discount is already reflected in the quote; it is not a separate reward to claim.
The 1% is shared. 25% pays the broadcaster whose broadcast led to the trade, and 30% / 3% / 2% pay the trader's direct, 2nd, and 3rd referrers. Broadcaster and referrer rewards are distributed only when they apply; the rest of the fee goes to the protocol.
Robinhood tokens
Robinhood token trades carry a 1% Tribe fee on the dollar trade notional; wETH is the exception, trading at the 0.25% majors rate. Buys are entered in USD; the trader's Robinhood USDG is spent first whenever it covers the order, and canonical USDC is debited from the Solana wallet only for the shortfall before the purchase completes on Robinhood Chain. Sells receive USDG on Robinhood Chain. Any provider fee included in the route is shown separately in the quote.
The same eligible-trader discount and broadcaster/referrer split described for external Solana tokens apply to the 1% Tribe fee; like every majors asset, wETH trades carry neither. USDC and USDG are different onchain assets on different chains even though the app displays both as dollar cash.
SOL and USDC conversions
Converting USDC into SOL is charged at the majors rate: 0.25%, with the same $0.10 minimum. Converting SOL into USDC currently carries no Tribe fee at all. Either direction still pays the underlying pool's own fee. Tribe covers the Solana network fee when converting USDC into SOL; converting SOL into USDC pays its own network fee.
Broadcast commissions
A broadcast is a public post a trader attaches to one of their buys. When someone opens a token from your broadcast, their trades on that token over the next hour pay you a commission: 25% of the protocol trading fee.
Copying a broadcast never costs the trader more; the commission comes out of the protocol's share, so creator earnings and referral rewards are unchanged. Commissions land in the broadcaster's wallet at trade time, and your own trades on your own broadcasts pay no commission.
Permissionless integration referrals
An external client can set its payout wallet as the public swap's referrer and receive the default 15% of Tribe's protocol fee without an account or approval. At the common under-10k-SOL tier, with no real LP liquidity, that works out to approximately 0.30% of the trade's SOL side. The reward splits the existing protocol fee and does not add a new trader fee.
This integration referral is separate from the invite-based referral tree. It has one payout wallet per swap, no trader discount, no multi-level split, and no 180-day attribution window. See Permissionless swaps for the default and performance tiers.